Footnotes
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
See Appendix 3.
Frierson had met with JS and others two days earlier. In the memorial, Frierson recounted the losses sustained by the Saints in Missouri. “Had any foreign State or power committed a similar outrage upon us,” the memorial read, “we cannot for a moment doubt that the strong arm of the general government would have been stretched out to redress our wrongs, and we flatter ourselves that the same power will either redress our grievances or shield us from harm in our efforts to regain our lost property, which we fairly purchased from the general government.” The memorial concluded by asking Congress to consider the crimes committed against the Saints and “grant such relief as by the Constitution and Laws you may have power to give.” JS and the city council signed the memorial on 16 December 1843. On 5 April 1844, James Semple, United States senator from Illinois, presented both this memorial and another memorial from the Saints (which was completed 21 December 1843 and requested territorial status for Nauvoo) to the United States Senate, which referred both memorials to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Shortly afterward, Orson Hyde and Orson Pratt drafted a bill to the same committee asking that two million dollars be appropriated for the Saints’ relief. The committee took no action on either the memorials or Pratt and Hyde’s bill. (JS, Journal, 26 Nov. 1843; 16 and 21 Dec. 1843; JS et al., Memorial to U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 28 Nov. 1843, Record Group 46, Records of the U.S. Senate, National Archives, Washington DC; Congressional Globe, 28th Cong., 1st Session, p. 482; Orson Hyde, Washington DC, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 25 Apr. 1844, JS Collection, CHL; Orson Hyde, Washington DC, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 26 Apr. 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)
The Congressional Globe, Containing Sketches of the Debates and Proceedings of the Third Session of the Twenty-Seventh Congress. Vol. 12. Washington DC: Blair and Rives, 1843.